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Author Walker, Decker F.

Title Curriculum and aims / Decker F. Walker, Jonas F. Soltis.

Imprint New York : Teachers College Press, ©2004.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  375.001 W178C    Check Shelf
Edition 4th ed.
Description ix, 132 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Thinking about education series
Thinking about education series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-132).
Contents Chapter 1 The Teacher and the Curriculum 1 -- Ambivalent Feelings About Curriculum Work 2 -- Finding Time and Resources for Curriculum Work 3 -- Who Has the Authority to Make Curriculum Decisions? 4 -- When Is a Curriculum Change a Change for the Better? 6 -- Preparing for Curriculum Work 9 -- Chapter 2 The Aims of Education 12 -- Aims as Ideals 13 -- Progressive and Traditional Perspectives on Curriculum 18 -- Curriculum Theory 23 -- Chapter 3 General Education 25 -- Teaching the Basics 26 -- Historical Precedents 27 -- Relating School to Life 31 -- In Search of the Best Curriculum for General Education 33 -- The Value of Different Perspectives 36 -- Chapter 4 Conceptualizing Curriculum Phenomena 39 -- Knowledge in Use 41 -- Conceptualizing the Instructional Process 43 -- The Structure of Subjects 46 -- Meaningful Learning Experiences 46 -- Program Conceptualization 48 -- Chapter 5 Procedures for Curriculum Making 53 -- Sources of Curriculum Making 53 -- The Tyler Rationale 55 -- Schwab's Practical and Eclectic Approach 59 -- Freire's Emancipation Approach 61 -- The Politics of Curriculum Making 63 -- Chapter 6 Explaining and Critiquing Curriculum Practices 66 -- A Critique of the Tyler Rationale 67 -- Curriculum and Criticism of Modern Life 69 -- Understanding How Curriculum Works in the Classroom 70 -- Curriculum in Relation to Culture 72 -- Chapter 7 Cross-Currents of Reform 77 -- The Anatomy of Reforms 80 -- Reform and Incremental Change 81 -- Teachers and Reform 86 -- Who's in Charge of the Curriculum? 87 -- The American Curriculum Influence System 89 -- Is Reform a Good Thing? 91 -- Reform: Pros and Cons 93 -- Working with Reform 94 -- Curriculum Today and Tomorrow 95 -- Chapter 8 Cases and Disputes 99 -- Curriculum Change 101 -- Freedom and Learning 102 -- Education for Life 103 -- Workforce School 105 -- Individual Differences and Equality of Opportunity 106 -- Mass or Class Culture? 107 -- National Reports on Education 108 -- Go Fly a Kite 109 -- Individualized Learning 111 -- Grading Policies 112 -- A Social Studies Curriculum 113 -- To Each His Own 114 -- The Geometry Curriculum 116 -- Do Procedures Make a Difference? 117 -- Teaching "Relevant" Literature 118 -- The Teacher as Critic 119 -- Theory and Practice 120 -- One School's Philosophy of Education 121 -- Whose Aims Matter? 122.
Summary The revised Fourth Edition of Curriculum and Aims provides a broad perspective on the basic curriculum questions educators face regarding the purposes, content, design, and structure of educational programs. After examining aims that have been proposed by classical educational thinkers and reviewing the dominant educational debate of the twentieth century between traditionalists and progressives, authors Decker F. Walker and Jonas F. Soltis deal with fundamental contemporary issues of curriculum theory and instructional practice. As in the other volumes in the Thinking About Education Series, this new edition provides realistic case studies that inspire preservice teachers to grapple with the issues of curriculum and aims in the context of classroom situations.
Subject Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
Education -- Curricula -- United States.
Curriculum planning -- United States.
Curriculum planning. (OCoLC)fst00885382
Education -- Aims and objectives. (OCoLC)fst00902507
Education -- Curricula. (OCoLC)fst00902556
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Leerplanontwikkeling.
Curriculumplanung (DE-588)4148410-1
Lernziel (DE-588)4035421-0
Finalité de l'éducation.
Planification pédagogique.
Programme d'études.
United States.
Added Author Soltis, Jonas F.
ISBN 0807744956 (alk. paper)
9780807744956 (alk. paper)
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